Re: any good releases lately?

[Howard Stelzer <hstelzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll add my $0.02 here...

I've really been enjoying Nerve Net Noise "Various Amusements" (Hronir, 
Germany). If all you've heard is thier unlistenable Meme CD, you haven't 
really heard these guys. Homemade synthesizer pieces that are at once gritty 
and nasty and pristinely recorded, with a strange use of space around the 
sounds. Can't say I understand for certain what these guys are onto, but 
there isn't anyone else doing it. If you like Kazunao Nagata (and who 
doesn't?), I reccomend this one most highly. (by the way, the name is 
misleading; NNN are NOT a noise band!)

Also,  Eric La Casa "L'Empreinte de L'Ivresse" (Digital Narcis, Japan) is 
stunningly beautiful. Not quite a new release, but it's new to me. Very 
subtle and emotive recordings of water, leaves and wind. Blows me away every 
time.

Justin Bennett "Magnetic City" (Spore, Netherlands) is another great one. 
It's a stereo representation of what was a multi-speaker installation in 
Barcelona, mostly recordings of urban streets. I've been keeping this on 
"repeat" all night. Only a handful of people can compose exclusively with 
field recordings and transcend the source material... La Casa and Bennett 
are two of the very best. The music is strong enough to allow me to forget 
the associations I might make with "street sounds" or "nature sounds", a 
tough trick to pull off.

Alial Straa "Tunnels/Stairwell" (Alluvial, US)... I'm real interested in the 
Orogenetic crew lately (John Grzinich, Seth Nehil, MNortham, Olivia Block), 
I'm loving everything I pick up by any of those folks.  By the way, is 
Block's new CD out yet? Has anyone heard it?

....and everyone knows that the new Fennesz CD is gorgeous, so I don't need 
to mention it again. Mego sure is a class act, no foolin'.


Howard Stelzer. Intransitive Recordings.
www.intransitiverecordings.com

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